Yuanbo Zhang wins London Open

Tue, 31/12/2013 - 19:06 — Tony Atkins

London Open

ISH, London

28 Dec - 31 Dec

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The 4d from Nottingham, Yuanbo Zhang, came out top of the list of 109 players at the 40th London Open. His only loss was in round 6 to Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia, 5d, from France. Benjamin had already lost in round 1 to Andre Stadtler, 3d Germany, but lost on SOS tie-break to Yuanbo. Pierre Paga, 4d France, won 5 games to come third on tie-break from the UK's Andrew Simons, 4d.

A new UK player called Tethys, 17k, won 6 games out of six and all on 5 wins won prizes too:
Doerte Rueten-Budde, 8k Germany, Patrick Pitters, 1k Germany, Francisco Divers, 1k London, and
Stephan Kunne, 1d Germany. All on 4 wins received a certificate. Results[2]

Also getting prizes were the Finnish winner and runner up in the Lightning: Mikko Siukola, 4d,
and Janne Nikula, 1d.

Winning the Pair Go was one of the male pairs let in to balance the numbers: Boris Mitrovic / Fynn Bachmann. Second were
Andre Stadtler / Chris Volk and third were Andrew Russell / Jonathan Green. 14 pairs took part. Pair Go Photos[3] and Results[4]